Cigarette-wraper.



F. B. WADDELL.

CIGARETTE WRAPPER.

APPLICATION man JUNE 1. 19:8.

Patented Doc. 31, 1918.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCES B.- WADDELL,

' a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county ofNew York'and State of New York, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Cigarette-Wrappers, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to the manual making of cigarettes and to specialpaper wrap: pers to be employed for this purpose.

One of the diiiiculties in maln'ng ones own cigarettes is that thetobacco usually spills from the ends of the paper during the process ofrolling, resulting in a thin, tapering end which can not be heldconveniently by the lips. Moreover, if an extra (uantity of tobacco isplaced at the end inten ed for the mouth, the tobacco which can not betightly packed comes out in the mouth and causes annoyance.

The principal objects of the invention are I to enable the smoker whoprefers to roll his own cigarettes to make them with at least one end,the end to be inserted in the mouth,

of the substantial thickness and shape of the hand so as to body of thecigarette, and in this respect equal to the machin -made article.

A further object is to enable the consumer to make a cigarette with afilled-up end from which the tobacco can not come out into the mouth.

A further object is to provide a cigarette paper or wrapper soconstructed that'a cigarette may be rapidly and easily rolled by form awell-filled tobaccoti ht end. he inventioncon'sists in the novelconstruction and arrangement of parts of a cigarette wrapper andcigarette hereinafter described and claimed, companying drawings,

Figure 1 is'a view, showing a single sh of cigarette paper made -inaccordance with the invention, the parts being in position in whichdrawings: eet

- before placing tobacco upon the paper;

Fig. 2.is a perspective view show ng the parts in the position to beginrolling the c' arette with the tobacco in place;

i 3 is a similar view showing the completeiy rolled and finishedcigarette; and

Fig. 4: is a similar view showing a pack of sheets with the parts inposition they occu y in a book or-folder.

ferring .to the drawings, .10 represents the body portion of a cigarettesheet pref- Speolfleation of Letters Patent.

and shown in the ac-.

Patented Dec. 31, 1918.

application filed June 1, 1918. Serial No. 287,766.

erably of paper as ordinarily used. At one end of the sheet, preferablynear one of the lateral edges 11, I provide a closure tongue 12extending in the direction of the length of the sheet and of such sizeand proportions as to, constitute anend closure of the cigarette whenrolled. This closure tongue is the body portion. That is, the tonguebeing attached at the end-15of the'body portion,

when the tongue is bent up and the holding strip is bent down along thebody portion it will extend into end 160i said body portion.

The body portion, closure tongue, and the holding strip are all formedof the same sheet and are integral as shown in the drawlngs just beforeinserting the tobacco, it ben s along the dotted line 17 shown in Fig.-1.

The use of the cigarette wrapper is as follows a The user holds thepaper in his fingers as with the ordinary paper, the tongue being bentupwardly alon the line 17 at right angles' to the plane 0 the paper andthe tobacco is then placed on the paper and distributed' along tongue isthen bent down upon the tobacco and its end 18 extends into proximity tothe opposite end 16 of the paper where it is held by the fingers for thepu the tobacco in place and a so holding the closure in the properposition. The parts the closure tongue 12. The. cigarette is then"rolled and finished in the usual manner, the outer turn of the paperoverlying the tongue proximity to the opposite When the'closure tongueis bent u position,the strip will its length. The holding ose of holdingand holding the parts securely in the desired relation. Owing to thethinness of the material, the base of the tongue where it joins the bodyportion readily accommodates itself to the bend of the upper portionwhen rolled, and a neat-appearlng cigarette with a full and substantialmouth end is the re sult, and it will be observed that the tobacco willbe prevented from coming out into the mouth of the user.

As above stated, the tongue and holding strip are integral with the bodyportion, and for the purpose of stacking the sheets the tongues are bentdown upon the paper as shown in Fig. 4, so that a number of the sheetswill be packed and occupy very little space.

I claim v 1. A wrapper for hand-made cigarettes consisting of a bodyportion having at one enda closure ton e for that end of the cigarette,and a ho] ing strip extending from said-tongue into proximity to theother end of said body portion 2. A wrapper for hand-made cigarettesconsisting of a body portion having at one end a perforated closuretongue with a holding strip formed integral with the body portion, theend of said strip reaching 1nto proximity to the other end of saidbodyportion to be held by the fingers at that end.

3. A cigarette comprising a wrapper having a closure tongue extendingacross one end of thecigarette and integral with the wrapper and havinga holding strip extending inside-the wrapper from said tongue intoproximity to the other end. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set myhand.

FRANCES B; 'WADDELL.

